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IMEI Fiasco does not Dent China Made Phone Sales

The Government banned phones without IMEI numbers from
December 1. While this effectively put a lot of cheap mobile phones out of
circulation, the wide open gap in the market was taken up by “Indian Brands” of
mobile phones, which are highly local mobile phone manufacturers, providing
impressive feature list and imitation devices along the lines of established
mobile phone manufacturers. While these do have IMEI numbers, be wary of such
devices as they have the same low shelf life and bad design quality of the
Chinese mobile phones.

In fact, although the mobile phones have an Indian local
brand on the packaging and the casing, these mobile phones are still produced
in China and imported into India. So the “Indian Brand” is nothing but rehashed
versions of the Chinese Mobile phones. The official mechanism for converting an
illegal, IMEI less device into a legal one has ended in the month of December
itself, and despite what local advertisers or service providers might tell you,
there is now no official way to get an IMEI number to your phone if it already
does not have one. The best thing to do in case you own such a device is to
trash it, and pick up a legitimate model with a legal IMEI code.

IMEI Fiasco does not Dent China Made Phone Sales
Reviewed by Shubham ~NeO~
on
September 10, 2011
Rating: 5